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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24

Fifth Auditor Eickhoff, in his annual re-
port, shows: During the year accounts
were examined involving the disbursement
OF 1922, S7S, 982 in the diplomatic, consul
ar and internal revenue services. In the
consular service there was an excess Of
$31,717 Of receipts over expenditures,
showing that the service is not only SELF
sustaining, but is q source OF revenue. Con-
sular fees amounted to $3.50, 600, and ex.
ceeded the amount OF any previous year.
At New York. Charles Cavana, porter,
died after most horrible agony. He was
bitten by dog Oct 8.
At Omaha, Joseph j. Hegner, German
attending business college, blew out his
brains because his stepfather would not
pay him $4OO which he owed him.
Two Montana gentlemen laid wager as
to whether Shepard & Winston beat the
record for railroad building, and the de.
cision says they did.
It is said that Mrs. Amos L. Hopkins
and Mrs. Fernando Yznoga, prominent
members OF New York society, are in San
Francisco for the purpose Of acquiring q
legal residence there. with q view to se-
curing divorces from their husbands.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24
LARGE Wheat Crop In Russia.

George A. Freudenreich, for many years
a citizen OF Minnesota, writes under date
OF October 20, from Odessa, Russia: The
wheat crop throughout the whole OF South
Russia. with the exception only OF the
province OF Taurida, including the Crimea,
has turned out to be most excellent. The
quality OF the wheat is also far better than
it has been for years, owing to
the fact that the threshing season was
very dry. Export trade has been extra
ordinarily lively here for the past six
weeks, and the have been as many as
forty steamers here at once. Seven-eighths
of them are OF course, English, OF the ocean
tramp class. Prices OF all kinds OF grain
are extremely low, while freights have
ranged higher than for several years past.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24

billiard and Anna Brums aged fifty, resi-
dents of Indianapolis, and dependent upon
charity for twelve years, have been notified
that they are heirs to q Pennsylvania es-
tate consisting of coal mines and lands
worth over 81 900, 600.
In sermon at Hartford, Rev. J. Kim.
ball, pastor OF the Unity church, spoke in
favor of the executed anarchists, compar-
ing their execution to the crucifxiun Of
Christ. The church will probably take ac-
tion.
The heaviest lake marine loss ol the
year occurred Thursday the 18th inst,,
when the Anchor line steamer Arizona,
with valuable cargo OF merchandise and
mixed freight, was totally destroyed by
fire at Marquette.
A naval court martial has been ordered
to meet at the New York navy yard for
the trial OF Lieut. Emory H. Taunt, on
charges Of absence from duty and station
without leave, disobedience OF orders, and
scandalous conduct preferred by the sec.
retary OF the navy.
At Syracuse, N. Y, the woolen mills OF
w. f. Keeffer and the flour mill OF Patter-
son u Session at Camilus were destroyed
by fire. Loss, $S0,000; insurance, $780,
Fire almost entirely destroyed Tomp-
kinsvilIe, the county seat OF Monroe, Ky.
Fire at Decatur, Ala. burned nearly a
whole block in the business portion OF the
city Loss, from $75, 900 to $1O0,OOO.
Secretary Lamar says he thinks the law
Of 1887 as to indemnity lands covers the
Northern Pacific case
The wife OF Secretary Whitney has re.
turned to Washington. She says her hus-
band is improving in health, but will not
be able to resume full charge OF the navy
department for some time.
Col. Glover Perrin, assistant surgeon gem
eral and medical director OF the depart
ment OF Dakota, has completed his fortieth
year OF service in the United States army,
and retired. He entered the army from
Ohio in 1S47, and is one OF the oldest and
most meritorious officers OF the medical
corps.
Ex-senator Window isinterested in Texas
railroad development and isnow trying to
place the bonds.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24
PlTn OF the NEWS.
News from Washington.

Mr.. Lamar confirmed as justice OF the
supreme court, the transfer OF Mr.. Villas to
the interior department and the appoint
ment OF Don Nj. Dickenson to the postmas.
ter general seem as probable as any future
political event.
1t is reported that the bondsmen OF l..
L. Aune, receiver OF the United States land
Office, at Fergus Falls, have telegraphed to
the President asking for his simmediate sus-
pension and the appointment OF some one
to take charge OF the office.
Assistant Commissioner Stockslager will
be acting commissioner until Mr.. Sparks
successor is appointed. Having ample
means it is said that Sparks will rest for a
year and will then be Il candidate Tor con
gress from his old district in Illinois.
An official list OF the members OF the
next house eofrepresentatives shows that the
next house will consist OF 16S Democrats
1o3 Republicans and four independents
The independents are Anderson OF Iowa,
Nichols OF North Carolina, Hopkins o.
Virginia and Smith of Wisconsin.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24
The British Fishery Commission

Washington Special: Joseph Chamber
lain and Sir Charles Tupper who, with
Minister West, constitute the commission
on the part OF Great Britain, arrived in
the city from New York. They were driven
to the Arlington hotel where thirty-seven
rooms had been engaged for them and their
party. OF these five were set apart for
Mr.. Chamberlain personally, and eight
or ten others are occupied by. the
Canadian members of the party and the
two gentlemen from the British foreign
Office who accompany Mr.. Chamberlain.
The other rooms are for the personal at
tendants of the commissioners. Beside
the two high commissioners, the party in
cl udes:
Messrs. Maycock and Bergne, OF the
British foreign Office Hon. J. s. D. Thomp-
son, Canadian minister OF JUSTICE Maj.
Gen. D. R. Cameron, official secretary to
Sir Charles Upper; c. c. Chapman. his
private secretary, and Wallace Graham,
Q. c.. his legal adviser.
It is thought that the work OF the com.
mission will begin in a few days. 1t is
probable that the session will be held with
closed doors.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24
The Soldiers Home Open at Min
nehaoa Falls.

The temporary quarters for deserving
soldiers is now ready for the reception Of
it's guests. 1t is located near Minnehaha
falls and will be utilized until the perma.
nent home is erected next year. 1t is not
desired to receive any ex-soldiers having
families dependent on them for support,
as separate provision for their relief is
made in the law. The board OF manage
ment is anxious to transfer all eligible, in
digent and disabled ex-soldiers, who are
now inmates OF almhouses and other
charitable institutions. to the home.
County authorities and Grand Army
committees are earnestly request.
ed to interest themselves in this
respect and inform the board OF all
existing cases OF distress. Hereafter it is
the hope of the trustees and the board
hope that it is the determi ination OF the
Grand Army comrades and all patriotic
citizens that no eligible ex-soldier subsist
as a pauper anywhere within the State OF
Minnesota. No one must be sent to the
home until the question of his eligibility
has been passed upon by the executive
committee and an order for his admission
received. All applications will be prompt
ly considered and the result communicate
ed at once. These points are outlined in
a circular issued by the board Of trustees
OF the soldiers home.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24
The Medical Press says that q ph

The Medical Press says that @ ply
sician living on the seaboard thus
writes to a paper: "Within the last
five years. in a district embracing six
ty square miles or so by the sea,
have noted the hour and minute of no
less than ninety-three demises in my
own immediate practice, and every
soul of them has gone out with the
tide save, four, who died suddenly by
fatal accident.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24
Record; of Casualties,

The Hancock chemical works at Hancock,
Mich, blew up at noon recently, with the
loss OF great deal OF property, the instant
death OF six persons and the injury OF 9TH
ers Those killed by the explosion were
Willie REWARD, Charles Borbell. Thomas
Thompson, Tim Crowley and Willie King,
BOYS between fifteen and eighteen years
old, and one man. William Lopp, Jr.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24
Resignation of Land Commission
or Sparks.

The Land Commissioners OF the general
land office, Gen. William A. j. Sparks, has
resigned his office as commissioner OF the
general land office. He called on the presi-
dent and delivered to him a letter defend
ing his course in the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha land grant case,
and formally resigning his Office on
the ground that his view OF public policy
in regard to railroad land matters were
Enthusiastically opposed to those OF the
Secretary OF the Interior and that as the
Secretary had placed the President in deli
cate position by threatening to resign un-
less he was ousted, he concluded to re.
lisvc the President by rendering his own
resignation.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24
Letter from President Cleveland.

At the banquet OF the New York Cham
Der of Commerce, President Cleveland
wrote: Those charged by the people with
the management OF their government can
not fail to enhance their usefulness by a
familiarity with business conditions and
intimacy with business men, since good
government has no more important mis-
sion than the stimulation and protection
of the activities OF the country. This
relation between government and
business suggests the thought
that the members OF such as
sociations as yours owe to themselves and
to all the people of the land a thoughtful
discharge OF their political obligations,
guided by their practical knowledge OF al
fairs, to the end that there may be i'm
pressed upon the administration OF our
government a business character and ten
dency free from the diversion OF passion
and unmoved by sudden gusts OF excite
ment. But the most wholesome purpose
OF their political action will not be accom-
plished by an insistance upon their ex-
clusive-claims and selfish benefits. regard
less OF the welfare OF the people at large.
Interdependence is so fully an element in
our national existence ttat patriotic and
generous heed to the general good seems
to best subserve every particular interest.
Chauncy NJ. Depew responded to the toast
OF 1.-THE United States, with a government
by the people and for the people; they
are friends ofhonest labor, the enemies OF
anarchism." Mr.. Depew said in part:
There has been brought out just now in
Western city the question OF the sur
vival OF our government. In Chicago it
has been partly settled what is to become
of anarchy. 1t has demonstrated that
the velvet glove OF liberty covers the
merciess hand OF the law. The American
people have decided this. There is no
liberty unless there is law. In the coun-
tries from which these people come the
police, the constabulary, the standing
army. keep them in check. But terrible
as may be the teri ors OF tyranny more
terrible is the vengeance OF free people
when their liberties are invaded. But aft
er all, the ills that threaten the United
State are but the spots upon the sun.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24
What the British Commissioner
Says.

At the late banquet OF the New York
Chamber OF Commerce, among the distin-
9hished guests was the British Irish Com.
Smith proposed a toast to Mr.. Chamber.
lain and in introducing him expressed
pleasure in the fact that he had been chus.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24

melted chocolate until thoroughly
coated. Set aside to dry. Should the
chocolate cool before you have fin.
ished, place over the tea kettle again,
or better still, stand it while using in
a pan OF hot water.-Cosmopolitan.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-24
THE NATIONAL GUARD
Gen. Sheridan concludes his report as
follows:

Gen. Sheridan concludes his report as
follows:
am strongly in favor OF the general gov.
ernment extending all possible aid to the
national guard OF the different states, as
they constitute body of troops that in
ady great emergency would form an I'm.
portant part OF our military force. They
should be armed with the best weapons,
amply provided with complete camp and
garrison equipage and instructed to the va.
rious drills andexercises according to the
tactics and systems followed in the regular
army. Most of the state troops now
march well and handle the gun well, but
they are deficient in discipline and in all
the duties that teach soldier to take
care OF himself while in camp or upon
march. This defect can best be overcome
by establishing some system OF encamp-
ment under the control and direction and
at the entire expense OF the general govern
ment. In the development Of such q meas
ure the entire army, as well as myself per-
sonally, win be glad to render such assist
ance az lies in our power, and recon-
mend that the favorable consideration OF
the subject be commended to congress.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-15

The w. Ell. Upham who is at the
head of the Upham Manufacturing
company, which lost $500, 900 by the
great FIRE at Marshfeld, Wisconsin,
was the hero of singular adventure
when q young man. He was men,
Der of a Wisconsin regiment which
participated in the first battle of Boil
Run, and was thought to have been
killed. His comrades saw him fall,
and none of them had any doubt OF
his death. Being the first victim OF
the strife in his own neighbOrhood
there wss a great mourning for him.
A memorial service was held in
which thousands Of people participa-
ted, and many eloquent eulogies were
passed upon him.
Six months later Upham appeared
in Washington with a party of ex-
changed prisoners. He had been des-
perately wounded and taken prisoner,
but the Confederates bad attended to
his wants, and when the exchange
took place be was sent home. When
in Washington be was taken to the
White House by Judge Doolittle, then
Senator, and introduced to President
Lincoln as a soldier who had come
back from the grave. As Upham
was on all the records as dead, Mr..
Lincoln ordered correct entry to be
made, and then gave the boy an hon
orable discharge from the service.
When he reached home in Racine he
was the lion of the hour, and the peo-
pie who participated in the memorial
meeting in his honor got up jubilee
which was hardly less numerously at
tended. Later on in the struggle the
fortunes of individuals were not so
closely watched.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-15
NuwsPAPFR LAws


Lazy and clumsy looking as the
elephant appears in our menageries,
where 1t is merely an object OF curiosity,
in Asia it is as useful on animalas the
horse, and is, indeed employed in q
greater variety Of ways.
There are few, II any, tasks which
horse can be trusted TO perform with
out careful and constant guidance;
whereas the elephant is frequent
ly given as much independence of &C.
tion as man would have for the same
work. This is notably the case in the
lumber-yard of Rangood and Maui
mein, where the entire operation Of
moving and piIing the heavy timber is
performed by male elephants without
any special supervision by the keepers.
The logs to be moved are teakwood,
which is very heavy. They are cut into
lengths of twenty feet, with a diameter
Of perhaps square, of about q foot.
An elephant will 60 to- log, kneel
down. thrust his tusks under the mid
die of it, curl his trunk over il, test it
to see that it is evenly balanced, and
then rise with it and easily carry it to
the pile which is being made Placing
the log carefully on the pile In its prop
er place, the sagacious animal will step
back few PAGES and measure with his
eye to determine whether or not the
log needs pushing one way CT anoth-
er. 1t will then make any necessary
alteration of position. In this way,
without word of command from its
mahout, or driver, it will 60 on with
its work.
To do any special task, 1t must, of
course, be directed by the mahont
but it is marvellous to see bow readily
this great creature comprehends its
instructions, and how ingeniously it
makes use of its strength If a log
too heavy to be carried is 10 be NOV
ed short distance, the elephant viii
bend low, bis great head against the
end of the log and then with sudden
exerticn of strength and weight throw
his body forward and fairly push the
log along or, to move the log any
great distance, be will encircle il with
a chain and drag bis load behind him.
As rule, however, the work Of
dragging is done by the female ele-
plants, since having no tusks, they can
not carry logs as the male elephants
do A man could hardly display more
judgement in the adjustment OF the
rope or chain around log, nor could
man with bis two hands tie and unite
knots more skilfully than do they with
their trunks.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-15
Curious Freak of Millionaire.

There are so many ways of spend
ing and of losing fortune that per-
haps nobody desires to be informed of
u new method for this purpose. i
heard yesterday, however, of a plan
which seems to me so ingenious and
so admirably calculated for dissipa-
ting any amount of money that | can
not forbear recounting it. 1t seems
that young man found himself, on
the death of his father and mother, in
unrestricted possession of 81 500, 900.
When the period of mourning had ex-
pired. he bought small circus and
travelled about with it in the capacity
of chief Snowman. How long the fun
lasted, or what small sum the circus
properties fetched when they were
sold at auction by the creditors of the
concern, am not informed.--BoSto1l
Post.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-15
for Infants and Children.

WILL WORK EQUALLY AS WE'LL
on ROUGH STONY LAND As OK
THE WESTERN Pit lIl;lES. II Is
UNLIKE ANY OTHER SULKY ~
TllE WORLD. CAN BE ATTACHED
TO ANY COMMON , WALKING
PLOW IN FIVE MINUTES TIME,
AND Is WARRANTED NOT 10
J INCREASE THE DRAFT ONE
POUND. so SIMPLE A CHILD
STRONG ENOUGH 10 DRIVE A
TEAM CAN OPERATE II. WILL
TURN A SQUARE CORNER WITH
OUT RAISING THE PLOW. THE
ONLY PLOW Nj MADE WITH 4 FOOT
LEVER To START THE POINT
OF PLOW ABRUPTLY IN THE
GROUND OR ELEVATE IT TO
SKIM OVER THE TOP OF FAST
STONES. AROUND ROOTS, ETC.
WOwant good. liyomEn 10 act as
agent IN every town in the L. S.
Write Us for our liberal terms and
prices.
e. s. DANIELS g. CO.,
HAVANA. n. Y.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-15
A Smart Boy.

Teacher-Who was Alexander Sci
kirk
Tommy-He was civil engineer.
Teacher-Civil engineer
Tommy-Yes ma 'am monarch of
all he surveyed.-New York Sun.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-15

In the primary schools of Stockton
Cal, the boys in the two lower classes
are obliged to learn needlework just
the same as the little girls, so that
hereafter they can make small repairs
for themselves.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-12-15

First. class Job work doue at the
JOURNAL office.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-12
MUST PAY HIS RENT.
The Presence of Bugs in a Tene-
ment Docs Not Cancel a Lease.

ment Does Not Cancel a Lease.
The general term of the New York
city court recently decided in curious
case that W. L. Tyler, of the United
States Life Insurance company, ten
ant in the Four Seasons apartment
house at Broadway and Forty-frst
street, must pay his rent to w. L. Pom
erOy if the reaches. crOtOn-bugs and red
ants did drive his family out of the
house. Alice Stewart, scrub woman,
testified that she saw 10000 bugs in the
house. Mr.. Tyler said that they infested
all the food, and crawled on the dinner
table, and went to bed with the family,
and bit him and kept him awake nights.
F. A. Kersland, another tenant, testi-
fed: ''They hung from the kitchen
shelves in heaps. / found them on my
clothes and on my mashed potato" The
cook, Catherine Dougherty, testified:
''YOu could fill hat out of one closet.
There was a bushel of them in the
house. They hung from the walls.
Some of the bugs were forty thousand
ear wigs Some of them were thou
sand-leggers.' Some people call them
'forty-feet BEASTS" She even saw
them walking over the ice, and they
spoiled the butter and the flour. Judge
McAdams' decision says that as there
was no special clause against bugs in
the lease the tenant must pay his rent.
The legislature has provided for the
case of fire and food, but it does not re-
lieve tenant from his commOn-laW OBJ
legation in case of bugs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-12

managed the victim suffers no pain
whatever. Death is instantaneous, and
although there are conclusive tWitcheS
of the body for some time it is due to the
SpaSmOdic cOntractiOnS of the muscles.
But when the hangman does not under
stand his work and the rope is not ad-
juSted so that the knot presses
over the medalla oblongata then
there is probability that the
victim will suffer long torture,
Those who believe that it viii be many
years before society can be brought up
to that standard that will admit of the
aboliShing of capital punishment, think
that something should be done to lessen
the horror attending an execution. Just
now the use of electricity is being agi-
tated. The many fatal accidents to line
men, if nothing else, demonstrates the
fact that with heavy current of cleo
tricity, death is certain and inStantane-
Gus. There is no pain whatever coll
nected with this form of execution. The
current may be applied to any part of
the body; and, if strong enough, instant
death will ensue. This is due to the
complete disOrganization of the nervous
system. This is by far the most hu-
name method, if the taking of another
mans life can be called humane. and
the bills that are now before some of the
state legislatures, substituting electric
ity for the moose, will, no doubt, meet
with favor.
There are numerous ways of applying
the method of electricity, all of which
produce the desired result, that is in
slant death without pain. A prominent
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-12
Opinions in ST. PauI

Many who were interviewed had no
opinion formed, and others refused to
be quoted. Here is what some of them
said:
Rev. Robert Christie-I don't wish to
be interviewed on the subject of eapital
punishment. Of course | have my con-
vlctionS on the subject, as all ministers
should have, if they believe in the
doctrines they preach.
DR.. Talbot JOnes-The subject of CAP
Ital punishment is an interesting one.
The present system of hanging is most
revolving one, and it would be a good
thing if it could be abolished. 1 don't
believe in abolishing capital punishment
entirely, but there should be some less
brutal method followed. In hanging
there is too much of chance for bung-
ling work by the eXecutioner and then
the poor victim has to suffer. If the
method of killing by electricity proves
practicable, it would certainly be an I'M
prOvement on the moose.
Sheriff Richter have never had any
experience in hanging, but | think the
proposed method of electricity is a good
one if it can be used.
Attorney General Clapp-I have some
opinions on that subject, but [ am
bilious to-day and it wouldn't be fair on
the murdererS if should be quoted on
their cases to-day.